Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Hutchinson has succeeded particularly well in her interpretation of the peasant dance coincident with the off-stage seduction. The dance is stylized and subdued, providing the audience with a pleasing respite from the dramatic illusion, and giving a distinct division to the play at the moment where master and servant exchange roles...
Died. Stan Laurel, 74, slim, sad-eyed master mime who with the late Oliver Hardy made some 300 of Hollywood's slaphappiest movies in the 1920s, '30s and '40s; of a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif. A onetime London music hall comic, Laurel was the brain behind the gags and the on-screen butt of them all, the watery-eyed, squeaky-voiced noodlehead who caught Jean Harlow's dress in a car door in Double Whoopee and absorbed the custard pies in The Battle of the Century, spilled the paint, upset the ladders and destroyed...
...gesture and expression is crucial to any good actor. What makes Moreau uniquely convincing is how little she does to accomplish so much: she smiles warmly at the husband she is about to betray-but haven't her eyes changed focus? She obediently lends herself to her master's fetishes in Luis Buñuel's Diary of a Chambermaid, but the chill hints of resignation that cross her face prove a heart full of nausea and disdain. "You don't have to act in front of a camera," she says. "You just have...
...father to do it," he says. While supervising the U.S.'s two bestselling whiskies, Seagram's 7 Crown and V.O., Edgar has become a strong believer in market research, "but not as a substitute for intelligence." And every day he sits, sips, and selects blends with his master blenders...
...Richard finding himselfe in this distresse, commaunded the Master gunner to split and sinke the shippe. But the Captaine and the Master yeelded that all their lives should be saved, and Sir Richard was sent unto to remoove, the shippe being marveilous unsavorie. Sir Richard died as it is sayd, the second or third day. What became of his body we know not. His owne honour he hath not outlived...